The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-06-07
ANOTHER VIEW.



Pertinent POINTS in II Pertinent way.
IT, he Eii.or Of The Examiner
WACO, June .. 49, ak per.
mission to usc brlcf space
in your columns to answer an
article that appeared in the Advance
Of the 5th, signed by Citizen, att
other publications in which the sign.
crs take the position that tic city
council should use the means appro-
priatcd Tor city lail building tor u
donation TO some railroad corpora.
uon TO induce such corporation to
build thtir roads to the city OF Waco.
aud also that the mouey subscribed to
build a merchants exchange he also
Al propr a'ed to the same purpose.
Tho city council has the right to
appropriate money to build city
hall, which is at this time an absolute
public necessity, and they further
have the approval of about ninc-
tenths of the property owners OF the
city of Waco in 30 Going. and while
citizens seem to lie ignorant OF the
tact, the constitution prohibits tAc
taxing of property owners Of any
city for the purpose of building rail-
roads CT givipg to private corpora
tions for any purpose whatevCr, aud
this certainly "a wise provision
Now the Idcu of using the money
subscribed by private individuals to
buld the merchants exchange j. a,
great farce a. the other. Every pri-
invest his money IN any kind Of IN
cu,crpri,r he chooses, and we can rs
well take the property of II merchant
aud divert it to the building CT rail
roads for private corporations, NJ ID
take his exchange bu.ldiu- stock
Tor the sanu purpose. We
want railroads, merchants eN.
change. city Ian, aud last but not
10 IT, free bridge over the Bralos,
and believe the citizens of Waco
" III contribute libCu.lE, n they ~.
WAYS have done, to yet the railroad
aud free bridge. if they arc Ap.
pronchCd IN the right way. but WHY
continually attack one ela-, Cfpub. q
improvements because The other
has not been crowned with
success. Il ever people have been
liberal, our people have. have been
| III Waco over twenty years and | dc
not remember time " hen there wa
| not come scheme OH loot to call on the
citizens for help, and they have gen
orally responded literally. They
/ have built churches anG school houses
/ They built the Contra railroad from
| BrcmOnd to Wuco. They contributed
/ to the Missouri Pacific railroad. They
contributed to the Cotton Belt rail
road. They contributed TO the Stay
den, kirksey Wooden Mills, md they
have Just now finished paving VI
$4,000 to bui,d the baptist university
II the capitalists, real estate holder
and people to b. most benefited vii
head the list with u bona tide liberia
subscription, the poorer classes will II
my opinion again put their shoulder
to the wheel aud Wcwill have railroad
city hail. merchants exchange and
tree bridge, but if our enterprise
happens To drag. do not have some
body staked out to cry "thc city
council is the cause OF it," but let II,
work IN harmony and every one dc
bis part according to the leneiits h,
is to derive from any public cutter
prise. aud East Waco and West Waco
will loom up in Grand stylc and W,
will still be- pros crou, and gran,
city instead Of a blightcd and RUNE,
village rs recent newspaper publica
tious would indicate TO the oUtsid,
world. &C. MCCULLOCH,